JediMaster

However, I believe when you create missions you can override the default loadouts. I know I have DL'd several off the net where Su-33s are carrying R-77s.

Personally I'd opt for a faster dual core CPU for the equivalent price. A slower quad-core won't give you any benefit in most programs right now.

That's because like the F-111 the main gear door is the speedbrake.

Again, though, other than engine management (which many other sims already have) there's nothing different about that. Maybe some of the details of WWI engine management are new, but the rest of it is technique, not technical. I'm not saying they're not doing new things, or that it's not worth doing, or difficult to do. I'm saying a lot of this stuff has to be generic and applicable to any plane in the sim and including only 2 seems more like a ploy designed to make people pay more for more planes over anything else. One plane at a time for DCS or F4 (before it went under) makes perfect sense. For any WWII or WWI-era plane it really isn't defensible. The only WWII study sim I ever had was B-17, and thanks to the Norden sight and controlling 4 engines and multiple turrets it really was complex and worth it.

Pathetic. Other "lesser" devs have released MULTIPLE games in this time period.

Sure, sims like F4 and Flanker and Black Shark where there's a lot to learn about that plane. However, there's not to much to learn about a SPAD or a Sopwith. You have an engine, stick, rudder, and MGs (maybe small dumb bombs). Flying and gunnery are the only things to learn, as in depth as they may be. You have to learn those same things to the same degree in Black Shark, plus you have things like the avionics, countermeasures, weapons that aren't guns, etc. In short, the developers by necessity have to put a lot more effort into modeling just one plane if it's a post-50's model compared to post-WWII and earlier. So while I can accept a study sim of just an F-4 or any contemporary or later airplane, I find it hard to swallow when it's got no radar, no NAV, no radio, no missiles, no ECM, simple engines, not even retractable landing gear. What exactly are they putting all their time into? Frankly, no home PC can truly model a damaged WWI bird with ripped fabric anyway, the equations are too complex and need to be approximated.

Red Wings Over Europe would make me very happy.

*backs away slowly from C5* So...now I recognize that smell...

Since it will apparently come with only TWO planes, I hope you really care nothing for quantity.

Most of Metallica and Nirvana's songs aren't screamed but sung.

Oh, I can't keep them straight anymore!!

I still think the first Vietcong was an awesome FPS. You got to know the men in your squad and you really felt the tension, creeping around watching for booby traps (one tripwire and BOOM!), never knowing when you might get ambushed.

Next time do what my wife did, Aggie, and get a spinal! The pain just floats away...

Yeah, for the sake of a few hundred MB of HD space you're giving yourself hours of headaches. Just don't bother.

A bug. There's a patch posted in the Column 5 forum for it.

Ouch. Literally. That has to suck for you!

Does #4 indicate that 1.13 is indeed in the works then? I can't see anything else being implied, it's not like they're going to make another add on or a sequel or anything, that's what DCS is for.

It does have coop. That's the only thing you got wrong.

No doubt TK is optimizing things as his engine matures. I'm just happy that all these years later he's still pressing forward.

Or perhaps a back story of what was leading to the mission, so not a briefing per se but rather something to put you "in the moment."

Now now, he may not have been crazy. He could just have been profoundly stupid.

A PIO must be one of the worst things a pilot can experience.

The A-10 has a reverse beauty...it's sheer ugliness is what makes it beautiful. If you will, its beauty comes in its disdain for aesthetics and its pure dedication to its mission.

Oh, I forgot to reply to this before: AFAIK all F-117s are being stored at their former home in Tonopah, no AMARC for them. What it would take to make them active again is probably classified so in an emergency we could spring them on an unsuspecting foe!

What year were the ugly bumps put on the BUFF chins?